PROGRAM
Days: Tuesday, April 14th Wednesday, April 15th Thursday, April 16th Friday, April 17th
Tuesday, April 14th
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Wednesday, April 15th
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09:00-09:45 Registration and Coffee
Registration and Coffee
10:45-12:15 Session 7A: T4: Scopes and Scapes of Science
| 10:45 | “Did you know that Open Science is a legal obligation under Horizon Europe?”: Taking a closer look at the European Commission’s approach to implementing their notions of openness across European research communities. (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Responsible Research in Security & Privacy: Negotiating Scientific Practices, Regulations, and Institutional Norms (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Diagnostic replication: What happens if this epistemic tool is put into action across disciplines? (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 7B: T22: Unpacking Entanglements between Science and New Forms of Geopolitics
| 10:45 | Unpacking Performances of Science Politicisation (abstract) |
| 11:03 | Varieties of Science: SDG knowledge production in different institutional contexts (abstract) |
| 11:21 | Towards responsible futures: unpacking the role of raw materials geopolitics in the design of emerging energy technologies (abstract) |
| 11:39 | Infrastructures of Crisis: Urban Technoscience, Geopolitics, and the Spatial Politics of Global Justice (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 7C: T8: Comparing Theoretical Lenses for Studying Contemporary Science-Society Interactions
| 10:45 | Braiding repertoires: using repertoire theory to analyze co-production processes between researchers and societal actors (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Pursuing better environmental knowledge in practice: Labouring connections and exploring supportive stories and skills (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Accounting for in- and exclusions of diverse modes of patient and public involvement in medical research ethics review (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 7D: T5: Deep Learning and Culture
| 10:45 | Absent Voices, Confident Answers: Representation of Long-Tail Biographies and Marginalized Cultures in LLMs Through Log Probabilities and Reasoning Patterns (abstract) |
| 11:15 | ‘Culture’ Meets its Match: The High-Dimensional Semantic Transductions of Multimodal LLMs (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Beyond Words: The Metaphorical Work of AI Memes (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 7E: T18: Revisiting the Hydrogen Utopia: Failures, Reorientations, and Emerging Visions
| 10:45 | “The only salvation” or a fragmented future? Islands of Prosperity and Abandonment in Finland’s Hydrogen Utopia (abstract) |
| 11:03 | The politics of green hydrogen futures at the end of the world: toward more plural modes of energy anticipation. (abstract) |
| 11:21 | Advancing scenario planning methodology as a technology of humility in hydrogen transitions (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 7F: OT: Reflecting Transformations
| 10:45 | Towards an integrated model of technology hypes (abstract) |
| 11:15 | From life phase to risk factor: menopause and hormone therapy in the Netherlands, 1950-1990 (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Long-term transformation through governance friction – the case of waste management (abstract) |
| 12:15 | Governing Transport Futures: Material Participation and Peripheralisation in EV-Centred Mobility Transitions (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 7G: OT: Imagination and Design
| 10:45 | Co-Designing Sustainability on Board: A Mixed-Method Approach for the Development of Novel Cruise Ship Cabins (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Panic Buttons in the Smart Safe City: Public Imaginaries of Urban Safety (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Ageing on Platforms: Experiences of Older TikTokers (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 7H: T11: Rural-Urban Knowledge Infrastructures for Transformation
| 10:45 | An inquiry into seed commons: anticipating, dissenting, and caring practices (abstract) |
| 11:07 | Cultivating rural experiences in the city farms of London (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 7I: T2: Governance in the Making: Governance, Knowledge and Technoscience
| 10:45 | Decentralised energy management in local neighbourhoods - Reconfiguration of power relations and actor constellations through socio-technical-scripts (abstract) |
| 11:03 | Gen Z Protests: Effects of rapid protest organization on democracy (abstract) |
| 11:21 | Standards, Certifications and Technoscience in Greek Agrifood Systems (abstract) |
12:15-13:15Lunch Break & Poster Session
13:15-14:45 Session 8A: T8: Comparing Theoretical Lenses for Studying Contemporary Science-Society Interactions
| 13:15 | Testing science through public participation (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Assembling the Collective: Rethinking Technocracy Through Latour’s Dingpolitik (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Science-society interactions in telescope siting processes (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 8B: T5: Deep Learning and Culture
| 13:15 | Cultural Boundaries in Latent Space: Iterative Image Prompting as Method and Meaning-Making (abstract) |
| 13:45 | From Ranking to Citing? Interrogating the epistemic culture of RAG-based search (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Boundary-Work by Artificial Intelligence: How Large-Language Models Govern Sensitive Public Discourse Across User Personas (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 8C: T18: Revisiting the Hydrogen Utopia: Failures, Reorientations, and Emerging Visions
| 13:15 | Pursuing just hydrogen futures? How directionality is shaped through research practices (abstract) |
| 13:33 | Imagining a Hydrogen Economy: The Technopolitics of the EU Hydrogen Strategy (abstract) |
| 13:51 | Hydrogen hype, decarbonization, and EU industrial policy: An analysis of ‘green steel’ (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 8D: T2: Governance in the Making: Governance, Knowledge and Technoscience
| 13:15 | Blood and Data Flows: Private Menstrual Cycle Tracking Technologies and the Production of Academic Knowledge about Women’s Health (abstract) |
| 13:33 | Beyond Collaboration: Navigating and Anticipating Institutional Logics and Power Dynamics in Hospital Algorithm Development (abstract) |
| 13:51 | Social pharmaceutical innovation as innovation power in the making (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 8E: OT: Critical Reflections on Research I
| 13:15 | Bridging Worlds not Blurring Lines: Sustaining Critical Capacity in Transdisciplinary Research (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Assessing research(er) quality with disrupted judgement device: the case of narrative-style CV in Dutch research funding (abstract) |
| 14:15 | The sand in the gears of large-scale interdisciplinary research: Uncovering bottom-up rearrangements of university infrastructure (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 8F: T11: Rural-Urban Knowledge Infrastructures for Transformation (Walkshop 1)
| 13:15 | Artistic Fringe: Walkshop 1 (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 8G: T9: Rethinking Classifications: Exploring Approaches to (not) Categorize People in Data-intensive Healthcare and Research
| 13:15 | From ‘you’re normal’ to ‘your normal’ : how menstrual tracking technologies and large-scale menstrual datasets challenge, reframe – and reinforce– gynecological categorizations ? (abstract) |
| 13:37 | Temporal Experiments and The Chronopolitics of Life's Endings in a Next-Generation Hospital EPR (abstract) |
| 13:59 | Rethinking classifications through layers of vulnerability. (abstract) |
| 14:21 | Technosolutionism, (strategic) essentialism, and (self-)surveillance in women's health (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 8H: T29: Normative Sense-Making about Artificial Intelligence Technologies
| 13:15 | Doing normativities at the intersection of AI, energy, and sustainability: an STS perspective (abstract) |
| 13:45 | The conceptual pillars of AI governance. The role of conceptual engineering in the legal and ethical governance of AI (abstract) |
| 14:15 | From Sacred Doctrine to Algorithmic Authority: Epistemic Power and AI in Times of Global Sociotechnical Shifts (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 8I: T6: Research Cultures in Transition Roundtable
| 13:15 | Researching Educational Research: Metascience, Governance and (Feminist) Citation Politics in the Academic Pedagogy (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Fifteen Years of Critical Reflection: STS, Research Culture, and the Looping Effects of (Studying and Enacting) Reform (abstract) |
14:45-15:00Coffee Break
15:00-16:30 Session 9A: T12: Implicit Infrastructures in Healthcare‘s Crisis and Disaster Preparedness
| 15:00 | Making School Testing a Problem: Problematization, Preparedness, and Covid-19 Test Regimes in Austria’s Education System (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Whose knowledge counts in a crisis? Expertise, Governance, and Healthcare Decision Making after COVID 19 (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Implicit advisory infrastructures in pandemic preparedness: temporality, expertise, and epistemic hierarchies (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 9B: OT: Critical Reflections on Research II
| 15:00 | The myth of neutrality: Justice in environmental assessment (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Chinese scientific journals on WeChat: Content Framing, Identity Representation, and User Engagement (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Naïve scientism as vulnerability to scientific misinformation (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 9C: T29: Normative Sense-Making about Artificial Intelligence Technologies
| 15:00 | A typology of AI narratives and their normative implications on AI literacy (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Disputing Definitions of Artificial Intelligence: Discursive Dynamics in Brazilian Public Hearings on AI Regulation (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 9D: T7: Making Science Better?
| 15:00 | Open Science as Confused: Contradictory and Conflicting Discourses in Open Science Guidance to Researchers (abstract) |
| 15:30 | PubPeer Perceptions: how authors view their own papers and those they cite in the light of PubPeer comments (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Clouded by systemic ignorance: unsettled state of knowledge about spherical nucleic acids (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 9E: T8: Comapring Theoretical Lenses for Studying Contemporary Science-Society Interactions Roundtable
Bringing conclusions and reflections together in general panel/roundtable discussion
15:00-16:30 Session 9F: T13: Strenghtening the Soil Humanities: Cultivating (Re)generative Power
| 15:00 | Rooted in Soil: a relational approach to spatial planning and design with soil (abstract) |
| 15:30 | More-than-human Actor Mapping: Integrating Actor-Network Theory and Critical Systems Heuristics to Reframe Actor Dynamics in Nature-Based Solutions (abstract) |
| 16:00 | The Cosmopolitics of Soil Resourcefulness: The Constitution and Contestation of Terrestrial and Agrarian orders (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 9G: T14: Evaluating Existential Threats, from Climate Change to AI and Gene Editing: STS Perspectives
| 15:00 | Mapping the "End of the World": An Institutional Landscape of Existential Risk Research (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Evaluating Biodiversity Loss as an Existential Threat Between the Sciences and Humanities: Techno-solutions and underlying issues (abstract) |
| 16:00 | AI Beyond Human Controllability? Unpacking the Tacit Assumptions and Rhetorical Foundations of AI Existential Risk (X-risk) Narratives & Their Assessment Across Different Scientific Disciplines (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 9H: T18: Revisiting the Hydrogen Utopia: Failures, Reorientations, and Emerging Visions
| 15:00 | Captive futures: why solar hydrogen struggles to escape fossil paradigms (abstract) |
| 15:18 | Fostering South-South ties ‘from below’ in hydrogen: Insights from a cross-regional encounter between Africa and Latin America (abstract) |
| 15:36 | Surviving the Early Hydrogen Economy: Diversification, Hype, and Reorientation in Chinese Hydrogen Start-ups (abstract) |
| 15:54 | Sustaining the Promise: Reframing Narratives Around Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (abstract) |
16:30-16:45Coffee Break
16:45-18:15 Session 10: WTMC Anniversary Plenary: Insights from six perspectives on STS enactments across four decades
Science and Technology Studies, or Science, Technology and Society? Both names are abbreviated to STS, and the field has a rich and vibrant history in the Netherlands. There must be more STS scholars per capita here than anywhere else in the world, which may well be due to the continuous infrastructural presence of the internationally recognized Netherlands Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC).
This plenary session celebrates the 40th anniversary of WTMC. Contributors to this plenary and many audience members have contributed to WTMC in the past and/or continue to do so.
There are many ways to tell the history of STS in the Netherlands. But in this session, we focus on how ‘science’ and ‘society’ (both broadly defined) shape each other, and also about how research about ‘science, technology and modern culture’ and their settings are mutually constituted.
Contributors to this plenary include STS scholars from all career stages. They have been invited to reflect on how their work is/has been situated, and which scholarly and societal debates they are/have been responding to or engaging with over the years. We have chosen three areas (and we know there are many more) which are important for the past, present and future of STS:
- Feminist STS and healthcare, with Nelly Oudshoorn and Claudia Egher
- Democratisation and participation, with Wiebe Bijker and Jonathan Arentoft
- History of science, with Chunglin Kwa and Paola Altomonte
Conveners (alphabetical by both first and last names):
Sally Wyatt is Professor of Digital Cultures in the Maastricht University Science, Technology and Society Studies research programme. She was one of the WTMC training coordinators between 2005-10 (first with Els Rommes and then with Willem Halffman), and its Academic Director between 2011-17.
Teun Zuiderent-Jerak is Professor of Transdisciplinary Science and Technology Studies at the Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the current Academic Director of WTMC. He was one of the WTMC training coordinators between 2010-14 (together with Willem Halffman and Geert Somsen).
Participants (alphabetical by first name):
Chunglin Kwa is a semi-retired lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, where until recently he taught courses in history of science and philosophy of science. He was among the founding members of WTMC.
Claudia Egher is a researcher at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. Her involvement with WTMC started during her PhD, when she studied expertise about mental health online. Claudia combines STS, Innovation Studies, and Transition Studies to research (digital) health innovations.
Jonathan Arentoft is a PhD candidate in Innovation Studies at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. His work sits at the intersection of agricultural development, plant breeding, and STS. He is currently following the WTMC programme.
Nelly Oudshoorn is Professor Emerita of Technology Dynamics and Healthcare at the University of Twente. She was Chair of the WTMC Board between 2007 and 2013.
Paola Altomonte is a PhD researcher at Maastricht University. Her research focuses on the history of STS, particularly on women doing radical science in the 1970s. She is one of the PhD representatives for WTMC.
Wiebe Bijker is professor emeritus at Maastricht University. He was the first training coordinator of WTMC, and subsequently its Scientific Director and Chair of the Board. He has been President of 4S and is founding co-editor of the Inside Technology series at MIT Press.
Thursday, April 16th
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09:00-10:30 Session 11A: T26: What If we talk Politics a Little - More?
| 09:00 | Democratic futuring: an inquiry in Nederland Verbeeld(t) (abstract) |
| 09:22 | Still time for a dress rehearsal? Geopolitical ecologies in a changing world order (abstract) |
| 09:44 | The global digipolis and a return to self-preservation: on Simmel, the home and the city (abstract) |
| 10:06 | The Machinery of Participation: How the Neighbourhood Approach formats local heat transitions in the Netherlands (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 11B: T32: Histories in Times of Global Shifts
| 09:00 | Preparing for urban crises: Public shelters as ‘infrastructures of preparedness’ in times of turmoil (abstract) |
| 09:22 | Foreground and background relationality: addressing chemical design through technoscience and value regimes (abstract) |
| 09:44 | Governing Crisis in Private: Environmental Imaginaries, Sustainable Development, and Alternative Sites of Global Governance since the 1970s (abstract) |
| 10:06 | Relational preservation: conceptualising our digital legacy amidst an ecological crisis (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 11C: OT: Infrastructures of Knowing
| 09:00 | Gender as an Epistemological Lens in Biodiversity Data Production: Rethinking Open-Air Laboratories (abstract) |
| 09:18 | Uncovering hidden assumptions in Digital Twins (abstract) |
| 09:36 | Quality of science journalism explored in Japan and the Netherlands in times of uncertainty (abstract) |
| 09:54 | From Open Science to Platform Enclosure? Sociotechnical Mechanisms of Closing in Decentralized Science (DeSci) (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 11D: T24: Making Futures Tangible? Sociomaterial Practices of Prediction
| 09:00 | Model realities: a case study on model use and governance in Dutch water management (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Making of Neuro-Futures – BCI-figurations in Science-Fiction film (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Knitting Work of Prediction: The Praxeological Grounds of Forecasting (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 11E: T10: Resisting Rent-Seeking: Nonprofit Platforms and the Politics of Open Science in Scholarly Communication and Evaluation
| 09:00 | Why is change in scholarly communication so hard to imagine? Findings from a stakeholder consultation for the cOAlition S proposal ‘Towards Responsible Publishing’ (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Advancing Open Research Information: Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Platform Capitalism (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Reviving enlightenment values in post-big-tech knowledge infrastructures? (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 11G: T15: Health and Care Shifts in Times of AI
| 09:00 | Awkward Alliances: How Algorithm Developers Navigate Contradictions in Healthcare (abstract) |
| 09:22 | Hypothetical enrollment - An anticipatory situated method to assess the implementation of AI diagnostics in clinical settings (abstract) |
| 09:44 | Aporetic Intelligence: Puzzlement as Care in AI-Augmented Neurosurgery (abstract) |
| 10:06 | Sensing Sepsis: responsibly developing and embedding an AI-assisted diagnostic device (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 11H: T21: Orbiting and Hovering – Critical Remote Sensing and Volumetric Regimes
| 09:00 | More Accurate, Less Meaningful? Reflexive Remote Sensing (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Between remote sensing and yak herding: grassland changes on the Tibetan plateau (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Exploring the Limits of Remote Sensing: Transdisciplinarity in Land Conflict Research in Mozambique (abstract) |
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Session 12A: T7: Making Science Better?
| 10:45 | Who Assesses What? Framing Expertise and Decision-Making in Peer Review (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Imagining the Bureaucratic Modularity of Good Science (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Research Integrity at Scale: Paper Mills, Screening Tools, and the Reconfiguration of Publishability (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 12B: T15: Health and Care Shifts in Times of AI
| 10:45 | Is participatory design enough? Methodologies for co-designing inclusive AI-based health technologies for and with people with COPD (abstract) |
| 11:07 | Explainable AI visions by older adults and how they co-create AI in care and daily practices (abstract) |
| 11:29 | Reflecting on diabetes care through AI: Lessons from Leefmaatje (abstract) |
| 11:51 | In between use and non-use: evaluating implementation of digital home-based health screening in the lives of everyday publics (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 12C: T31: Navigating the Digital–Science Nexus: Science and Technology Studies, Emerging Digital Technologies, and the Future of Knowledge
| 10:45 | The future of genAI in science: a backcasting exercise (abstract) |
| 11:15 | The AI-Question in Academia: Exploring the Practices and Perceptions of Researchers using AI-driven Software (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Navigating Quantum Infrastructures: An Ecosystem-Level Approach to Responsible Research and Innovation in the Netherlands (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 12D: T6: Research Culture(s) in transition: Uncertainty, Reform, and the Politics of Change in Academic Research: ainty, Reform, and the Politics of Change in Academic Research: Shaping norms and governance via reform
| 10:45 | The impact agenda. Investigating practices and politics of producing science with impact (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Archives and AI - opportunities and challenges for research data curation in a changing landscape of academic research (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Evaluating relevance in research assessment: an ethnographic inquiry of academic whiteness (abstract) |
| 12:15 | Assetisation mechanisms in hybrid professions - Evidence from Project Management (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 12F: T21: Orbiting and Hovering – Critical Remote Sensing and Volumetric Regimes
| 10:45 | Towards a FAIR-compliant Harmonised AI-based Automatic Metadata for Climate Research (abstract) |
| 11:15 | Seeing like a Satellite? The Role of Space-based Valuations in Monitoring GHG Emissions (abstract) |
| 11:45 | How the adoption of remote sensing technologies challenges asset management in municipal organisations: a case study of urban bridges and quay walls (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 12G: T32: Histories in Times of Global Shifts: Roundtable
A roundtable conversation with researchers active in the fields of history, memory studies, transdisciplinary STS, and related disciplines. Our goal is to generate a debate rich in both content and connection between different approaches, as we work towards understanding how such mobilisations take place across disciplines, and towards developing conceptualisations that allow these approaches to speak to one another.
Organizers:
Evelien de Hoop (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Andreas Weber (TU Twente)
Sjamme van de Voort (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
)Efi Nakopoulou (TU Twente)
12:15-13:15Lunch Break & Poster Session
14:45-15:00Coffee Break
15:00-16:30 Session 14A: T3: Ethics and Technology in Practice
| 15:00 | Outsourcing the Ethics of Care: Human-Robot-Healthcare Interaction (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Ethical Readiness for AI in Systemic Design Practice: Making Systemic Design Tools Adaptive, Inclusive, and Participatory Infrastructures (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Making the invisible visible: A reflection method to help model developers and users uncover justice-related design choices in energy models (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 14B: OT: Approaches to Knowing I
| 15:00 | Enacting Futures Through Valuation: Sociomaterial Practices of Prediction in Public Investment (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Identifying future control points in the economy: The startup complexity index (abstract) |
| 16:00 | CDA as a theoretical lens for studying contemporary STS related issues: discursive disputes around sustainability (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 14C: T11: Rural-Urban Knowledge Infrastructures for Transformation
| 15:00 | On amplifying, facilitating and building alliances: democratic infrastructures for transformation (abstract) |
| 15:30 | ‘Commons-literacies’ for activating rurban futures: Lessons learned on cultivating a new (knowledge) practice for commoning at the rural edges of Amsterdam (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Beyond niche innovations and scaling: Transformative change as struggle (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 14D: T7: Making Science Better?
| 15:00 | Exploring Scientific Bubbles: Lessons from other domains (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Editorial Structure and Peer Reviewer Selection: A Comparative Study of PLOS Biology and PLOS ONE (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Navigating the science system: research integrity and academic survival strategies (abstract) |
15:00-16:30 Session 14E: T15: Health and Care Shifts in Times of AI
| 15:00 | A Case Study of the Development and Implementation of AI in Healthcare, or the Love of Technology (abstract) |
| 15:30 | Digital health, AI, and the shifting of (health)care values: Corporate-driven efficiency unquestioned (abstract) |
| 16:00 | Care alignment: Holding together care and scale in the development of AI-based health data infrastructures (abstract) |
16:30-16:45Coffee Break
16:45-18:15 Session 15A: OT: Approaches to Knowing II
| 16:45 | Engaging Quantum Futures: Expectations as a Bridge Between Science and Society (abstract) |
| 17:15 | Same artwork, different values: how art appraisers navigate uncertainty and information asymmetries in the art market (abstract) |
| 17:45 | Participatory and Spatial Approaches within Urban Infrastructuring (abstract) |
16:45-18:15 Session 15B: T7: Making Science Better?
| 16:45 | Co-creating Research Assessment Reform (abstract) |
| 17:15 | What makes a conference high quality? (abstract) |
| 17:45 | FAIR Data Practices for Qualitative Research in Transdisciplinarity (abstract) |
16:45-18:15 Session 15C: T15: Health and Care Shifts in Times of AI
| 16:45 | Tracing imaginaries of healthcare AI and robotics through public policy, engineering research, and nursing practice (abstract) |
| 17:07 | Cultivating narrative literacy: how fictional stories structure sense-making of AI for health and care (abstract) |
| 17:29 | “Digitaal als het kan”: Framing Value and Necessity of Digital Innovations in Dutch Mental Healthcare (abstract) |
| 17:51 | Scripts-in-the-making: the continues rescriptions of AI assisted digital self-monitoring during technology development process. (abstract) |
16:45-18:15 Session 15D: T3: Ethics and Technology in Practice
| 16:45 | Ethics in and through InSilico Health (abstract) |
| 17:07 | Values in Diagnostic Cancer Technologies: Co-constitution, Multiplicity, and Ethical Reflection in PREDI-Lynch (abstract) |
| 17:29 | A Practical Dialogue Approach to Emotional-Moral Reflection on Risks and Technologies (abstract) |
| 17:51 | When the Heart becomes Technology: A Practice-Oriented Ethical Exploration Using Phenomenology and Public Intuition (abstract) PRESENTER: Heleen Groote |
17:00-18:30 Session 16: T11: Rural-Urban Knowledge Infrastructures for Transformation (Walkshop 2)
Tetem (Stroinksbleekweg 16, 7523 ZL Enschede)
| 17:00 | Artistic Fringe - Walkshhop 2 (abstract) |
Friday, April 17th
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09:00-10:30 Session 17A: T19: STS Research into Interdisciplinarity: Studies of Interdisciplinary Practice
| 09:00 | Strategies to draw interdisciplinary expertise to the center of higher education at the boundary of STS and Digital Humanities (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Challenges of Coordinating an Interdisciplinary Consortium: Leibniz Science Campus DiTraRe (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Opening the toolbox – investigating formats for interdisciplinary facilitation (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 17B: OT: Approaches to Knowing III
| 09:00 | Co-creation for a just energy transition? An assessment of the transformative potential of participatory modelling in the heat transition in Utrecht (abstract) |
| 09:30 | The Heart of Beijing: A Hermeneutic Reading of Hutong (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Redeveloping a climate service by considering contextual sensitivity through an Actor Network Theory-lens – The case of the RuimteScanner-tool (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 17C: T6: Research Culture(s) in transition: Uncertainty, Reform, and the Politics of Change in Academic Research: – Social safety & the costs of raising awareness of systemic inequalities
| 09:00 | Not Just the Career of One Researcher: Social Safety, Research Culture Reforms and the Politics of Governing Dissent in Dutch Academia (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Secret Academia: Hidden Structures, Informal Power, and Academic Misconduct (abstract) |
| 10:00 | The power to transform? Mapping transformative power in EU research projects and policy contexts (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 17D: T25: When Futures Get Stuck: The “Captivity” of Collective Futuring in Transitions
| 09:00 | Towards an Integrated Framework for Research on Imagination and Future Orientation in Transition Studies (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Nuclear fusion promises in the media: exploring the equilibrium between change and stabilisation of the energy system (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Restart after Stalling? Future Imaginaries and Re-Combination in Sociotechnical Transitions (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 17E: T20: Ctrl+Shift+Lab: Living Labs as Value-Based Research Infrastructures for Goal-oriented Change in Times of Global Crises
| 09:00 | A Transdisciplinary Transformative Cycle (TTC) as a practices-based intervention framework for sustainability transformations (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Narrating and Enacting the Campus Living Lab: A Comparative Analysis of Sustainability Imaginary Embeddedness. (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Reflexive innovation in Living Labs: Novel knowledge infrastructures in times of global shifts (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 17F: T3: Ethics and Technology in Practice
| 09:00 | The Fundaments of an Ethical Parallel track; building blocks for practical ethics in design processes (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Ethical Workforms for Design and Designers: Structure and Coherence (abstract) |
| 10:00 | Values Taking Shape Workshop (abstract) |
09:00-10:30 Session 17G: T31: Fixing the split of knowledge and its ownership: In search of material and technological decolonisations
| 09:00 | Sonthanga: Decolonising Cotton Textile Production (abstract) |
| 09:30 | Making crop biotechnology African: boundary work, ownership and autonomy in Kenya and Ghana (abstract) |
| 10:00 | United States and Latin America in the shifting geopolitics of knowledge capitalism (abstract) |
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Session 18A: T19: STS Research into Interdisciplinarity: Reflections on and Analyses of Interdisciplinarity as a Concept
| 10:45 | Living in Complexity: Disciplinary Identities and Knowledge Integration at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) (abstract) |
| 11:15 | One researcher, multiple disciplines: perils and payoffs of navigating solo across epistemologies through the concept of experience (abstract) |
| 11:45 | The Conceptual Co-Evolution of Interdisciplinarity and Integration (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 18B: T6: Research Culture(s) in transition: Uncertainty, Reform, and the Politics of Change in Academic Research: – Researchers’ Perspectives, Transformation & the Puzzle of Sustainable Research Culture
| 10:45 | Letters from the In-Between: On Being and Becoming Transformative Researchers (abstract) |
| 11:07 | Research Culture: Janteloven, Sins and Notions? (abstract) |
| 11:29 | Dis/abling academia? Research culture between pressure to perform, barriers and opportunities in Germany (abstract) |
| 11:51 | Caught in the Fray. How climate scientists navigate the public sphere (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 18C: T25: When Futures Get Stuck: The “Captivity” of Collective Futuring in Transitions
| 10:45 | Futures in flux: episodes of epistemic reconfiguration in the energy transition (abstract) |
| 11:15 | The Future of Sustainability, Nutrition and Food Safety in European Circular Food Systems (abstract) |
| 11:45 | Imagining Carbon Futures: A Comparative Analysis of Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Industrial Carbon Management Technologies in Germany (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 18D: T3: Ethics and Technology in Practice
| 10:45 | Visualising AI Perceptions for Ethical Reflection in the Dutch Public Sector (abstract) |
| 11:07 | Scientific practices for the transformation of unjust realities (abstract) |
| 11:29 | Should Ethics be Agile? (abstract) |
| 11:51 | Fostering responsibility in data sharing practices? (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 18E: T17: Digitilisation for Equity?
| 10:45 | Digital health as a Matter of Care (abstract) |
| 11:07 | Humanitarian VR as a Matter of Care: Plurifying Digital Humanitarianism through STS (abstract) |
| 11:29 | Between digital efficiency and care: Everyday negotiations of equity in community transport (abstract) |
| 11:51 | The Translation Wars of Bias: Discursive Negotiation and Power Struggles among Government, Industry, and Civil Society in SIS II (abstract) |
10:45-12:15 Session 18F: T27: Act Now! On Obstructing, Envisioning and Enacting Radical Change for Just and Liveable Futures: Obstructing & Envisioning
| 10:45 | Scientific identity as a condition for transdisciplinary engagement: Four personae among applied physicists (abstract) |
| 11:07 | Academic research as vehicle for obstructive fossil solutionism and transformative change (abstract) |
| 11:29 | Lessons from the past: being a woman, an activist and a scientist in the second half of the 20th century. (abstract) |
| 11:51 | Foregrounding relations for action (abstract) |
12:15-13:15Lunch Break & WTMC Annual Meeting
13:14-14:45 Session 19: T3: Ethics and Technology in Practice: Workshops
| 13:14 | To Prompt or not to Prompt: A Mini-Workshop on Academia's Relationship with Generative Artificial Intelligence (abstract) |
| 13:44 | Narrative Design Cases: Design engineering case studies for technology ethics through practice (paper & workshop) (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 20A: OT: Governing Socio-Technical Change
| 13:15 | The promises and pitfalls of consensus-seeking politics in times of polarisation: Lessons from the Strategic Dialogue on the future of European agriculture (abstract) |
| 13:33 | Affected Microbiome: Assembling Caring Relationalities between Humans and Microbes In and Through Microbiome Engineering (abstract) |
| 13:51 | The ‘how’ of inclusive transitions: navigating/identifying dilemmas between inclusion and transitions (abstract) |
| 14:09 | When the World Outgrows our Words: How Socially Disruptive Technologies Reshape Moral Conceptual Frameworks (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 20B: T25: When Futures Get Stuck: The “Captivity” of Collective Futuring in Transitions
| 13:15 | Nestedness of collective futures: Scales, Time and Depth of change (abstract) |
| 13:45 | Enacting an ecology-based agrifood system in living labs of a sustainability transition programme (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Competing Imaginaries in Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: Power, Justice, and the Politics of Sustainability in the Brazilian Amazon (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 20C: T28: European AI: Towards Digital Sovereignty and Alternative Approaches to AI Technology
| 13:15 | Panel Introduction: understanding AI infrastructure in Europe (abstract) |
| 13:37 | Open source AI in Europe: how building blocks are falling into place right now (abstract) |
| 13:59 | Constituting a sovereign European identity through AI ethics. A critical exploration (abstract) |
| 14:21 | Investigating Training Data Transparency in the EU AI Act: a Reconstruction-Based Approach (abstract) |
13:15-14:45 Session 20D: T16: When the Public Goes Private: The Entanglement of Financialized Actors in Public Sectors
| 13:15 | A Vocabulary of Green Justification: Creating New Not New Environmental Truths (abstract) |
| 13:45 | A typology of network governance: exploring (not-) for-profit networks of general practices in the Netherlands (abstract) |
| 14:15 | Action without resolution: Private knowledge practices in public healthcare networks (abstract) |
14:45-15:00Coffee Break